Born in Slovakia in 1979, Tomáš Libertíny studied at the Technical University Košice in Slovakia focusing on engineering and design. He was awarded George Soros’s Open Society Institute Scholarship to study at The University of Washington in Seattle, where he explored painting and sculpture. He continued his study at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in painting and conceptual design. After receiving the prestigious Huygens Scholarship, he enrolled in the Masters program at the Design Academy Eindhoven where he received his MFA in 2006.
Founded in 2007 in Rotterdam, Studio Libertiny explores the relationship between nature and technology. The results are conceptual and physical strategies in design and construction of sculptural objects and installations. Here have been created among others the famous Honeycomb Vases, where the designer involves real bees in the manufacturing process, and the Paper Vases.
Tomáš Libertíny has participated in many personal and group exhibitions held in institutions and venues such as the Venice Art Biennial, Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum of Art and Design New York, Holon Design Museum, Bozar Brussels, Espace Fondation EDF, Beirut Exhibition Center, MARTa Herford, MAC’s Grand Hornu…
His work is also displayed in several prestigious permanent collections, amongst others at MoMA New York, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Cincinnati Art Museum, MUDAC, Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts in Lausanne, Corning Museum of Glass, CIC Rotterdam…
Tomás Libertíny: Carte Blanche
Made by Tomáš Libertíny —and Bees